| Main Entry: | refrigeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cooling |
Synonyms: |
chilling, freezing, keeping cold, regelation |
| Concept: | Refrigeration. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
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-nouns
refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature; cooling; congelation, conglaciation; ice; solidification (density); ice box (refrigeratory)., extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; flexible asbestos; fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility)., incombustibility, incombustibleness (insulation).
-verbs
cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,, damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility).
-adjectives
cooled; frozen out; cooling; frigorific., incombustible; uninflammable, unflammable; fireproof.
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calefaction |
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| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frigid conditions |
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ague, algidity, algor, chill, chilliness, coldness, congelation, draft, freeze, frigidity, frost, frostbite, frostiness, frozenness, gelidity, gelidness, glaciation, goose flesh, iciness, inclemency, rawness, refrigeration, shivering, shivers, snow, wintertime, wintriness |
Antonyms: |
heat, warmth |
| Main Entry: | preservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maintenance, protection |
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canning, care, conservancy, conservation, curing, defense, evaporation, freezing, guard, guardianship, keeping, perpetuation, pickling, preserval, refrigeration, safeguard, safeguarding, safekeeping, safety, salvation, saving, security, shield, storage, support, sustentation, tanning, upholding, ward |
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destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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cold, aguish, algefacient, algid, algific, arctic, biting, bitter, bleak, boreal, brumal, chelmaphilic, chill, chilly, clay-cold, clumpst, cold as Christmas, cold as a charity, cold as a frog, cold as a stone, cold as iron, cold as marble, cool, cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard, cooled, cooling, cutting, ectothermic, fireproof, freezing, fresh, frigid, frigolabile, frigorific, frore, frost-bitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, frosty, frozen out, gelid, glacial, haematocryal, hibernal, hyemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-bound, iced, icing, icy, inclement, incombustible, isocheimenal, keen, lukewarm, marmoreal, nipped, nipping, nival, niveous, piercing, pinching, poikilothermal, raw, shivering, siberian, starved, subboreal, tepid, unflammable, uninflammable, unthawed, unwarmed, wintry
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| Concept: | Cold. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
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cold, coldness; frigidity, inclemency, fresco., winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla., [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U. S.], lolly [N.Am.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; névé, serac; pruina., [Sensation of cold] chilliness; chill; shivering; goose skin, rigor, horripilation, chattering of teeth.
-verbs
be cold; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver; perish with cold; chill (render cold); horripilate.
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cold, cool; chill, chilly; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved (made cold); shivering; aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped., cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard., icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out., unwarmed, unthawed; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic.
-adverbs
coldly, bitterly; pierre fendre.
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Antonyms: |
heat |
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| Concept: | Preservation. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
Synonyms: |
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preservation; safe-keeping; conservation (storage); maintenance, support, susteritation, conservatism; vis conservatrix; salvation (deliverance)., [Means of preservation] prophylaxis; preserver, preservative; hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning; ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods., [Superstitious remedies] snake oil, cure-all; charm.
-verbs
preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep alive; refrigerate, keep on ice; not willingly let die; bank up; nurse; save, rescue; be safe, make safe [more]; take care of (care); guard (defend)., stare super antiquas vias [Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's ground, stand one's ground (resist) [more]., embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband (store).
-adjectives
preserving; conservative; prophylactic; preservatory, preservative; hygienic., preserved; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged, unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.
-phrases
nolumus leges Angliae mutari.
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